Sentences with phrase «antibiotic resistance genes»

The research shows that bacteria that carry antibiotic resistance genes are unlikely to survive high temperatures.

The desire of the host to acquire antibiotic resistance genes from its guest could have driven this chain of events, he says.

There is a very good reason microbes would be armed with antibiotic resistance genes, the researchers explain.

Huge numbers of diverse antibiotic resistance genes are present in soil bacteria.

An assessment of the risks associated with the use of antibiotic resistance genes in genetically modified plants: report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Researchers developed an algorithm capable of tracking the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in gut microbiota DNA.

As well as Zika virus, the team has also used SHERLOCK to detect antibiotic resistance genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria, and health - related gene variants in human saliva.

The largest metagenomic search for antibiotic resistance genes in the DNA sequences of microbial communities from around the globe has found that bacteria carrying those vexing genes turn up everywhere in nature that scientists look for them.

The method is so effective in so many kinds of plants that «all previous technology uses antibiotic resistance genes,» says Michael Syvanen, a microbiologist at the University of California, Davis.

Plasmids are pieces of independent DNA that often carry multiple antibiotic resistance genes.

Bacteriodes is also rich in mobile elements, although these do not harbor antibiotic resistance genes.

The researchers, including Nesme and senior author of the study Pascal Simonet, took advantage of the ever - growing reams of existing next - generation sequencing data that are freely available in public repositories together with information about antibiotic resistance genes found in pathogens infecting patients in the clinic.

Some transgenic crops contain antibiotic resistance genes as selection markers that were used during the process of transgene construction.

Plasmids are also key players in moving antibiotic resistance genes between different bacterial species.

Temporal succession of soil antibiotic resistance genes following application of swine, cattle and poultry manures spiked with or without antibiotics — Yu - Jing Zhang — Environmental Pollution

Though the results of the experiment allowed Abate's lab to distinguish individual microbial species, identify antibiotic resistance genes, and find virulence factors, he sees substantial room for improvement.

«The fact that we were able to detect antibiotic resistance genes at relatively important abundance in every environment tested is certainly our most striking result.»

The scientists» analyses detected antibiotic resistance gene determinants in all 71 environments represented in the public data, including soil, oceans, and human feces.

Now, research conducted at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability — DTU Biosustain — at Technical University of Denmark for the very first time shows that antibiotic resistance genes originate from the same place as the antibiotic compounds, i.e. from a group of soil bacteria called Actinobacteria.

«We found that as more «mixing» occurs between local dust and that which comes from far off, the lower the contribution of the imported antibiotic resistance genes.»

A plasmid is like a bacterial gene delivery truck; it is the primary way antibiotic resistance genes spread between bacteria.

Reetta Satokari's group has an interesting ongoing project where they look at the effects of faecal microbiota transplant on antibiotic resistance genes detected in the patient's microbiota.

Extensively drug - resistant A. baumannii can contain many antibiotic resistance genes that can be transmitted to other organisms, he added.

They first suspected this when they noted that the bug has repeated sequences that look like those in known integrons, and the sequences flank not only antibiotic resistance genes, but also genes coding for several other proteins, including some that are toxic.

«New technology could reduce spread of antibiotic resistance genes through compost.»

While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

Hyperthermophilic composting, therefore, has the potential to make composting end products safer by reducing the abundance of unwanted antibiotic resistance genes.

Dr Friman said: «Developing safer ways to manufacture organic fertilisers can reduce our dependence of traditional chemical fertilisers, whilst at the same time ensuring that they do not impact on human health by enriching antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural environments.»

Dirt - dwelling microbes contain many of the same antibiotic resistance genes as human pathogens

Background Multidrug resistance (MDR)- encoding plasmids are considered major molecular vehicles responsible for transmission of antibiotic resistance genes among bacteria of the same or different s...

As for the wastewater treatment plant, Dantas called it the perfect storm for transmitting antibiotic resistance genes.

Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes from mariculture sites of China's coastline — Quanxin Gao — Science of The Total Environment

When researchers looked further, they found this strain of H58 had gained an extra strand of bacterial DNA — a plasmid — that encoded for additional antibiotic resistance genes.

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) functioned as the intersection between the human society and nature environment, are receiving increasingly more attention on risk assessment of the acquisition of environmental antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) by pathogenetic populations during treatment.

The study, led by Moran Yassour, a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, also found a temporary rise in the number of antibiotic resistance genes when antibiotics were given.

More than three fourths of all current antibiotics used to treat human infections are produced by Actinobacteria, which at the same time carry antibiotic resistance genes.

«Heretofore, C. sakazakii - contaminated infant formula has been considered an unsolved problem because antibiotics can not be used,» said Ryu, adding that C. sakazakii has been known to have multiple antibiotic resistance genes.

«Fish food for marine farms harbor antibiotic resistance genes.»

Now that we know all about antibiotic resistance genes, let's consider another basic element of any plasmid: the origin of replication / replicon.

Salyers A (n.d.) Genetically Engineered Foods: Safety Issues Associated with Antibiotic Resistance Genes.

«We were happy to find that antibiotic resistance genes from soil bacteria generally aren't poised to jump suddenly into pathogens,» Dantas said.

Now, a team led by microbiologist Tim Kunkel of The Rockefeller University in New York City has shown that at least two crops — lettuce and tobacco — can be engineered without using antibiotic resistance genes.

We look for antibiotic resistance genes, both phenotype and genotype of the microbiotia and looking through the genetic signatures of antibiotic resistance.

Specifically, they have found unnaturally high levels of antibiotic resistance genes in sediments where the river comes into contact with treated municipal wastewater effluent and farm irrigation runoff as it flows 126 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park through Fort Collins and across Colorado's eastern plain, home to some of the country's most densely packed livestock operations.

PAHs accelerate the propagation of antibiotic resistance genes in coastal water microbial community.

And on the subject of public health, it is worth exploding the number one myth of anti-GM lobbyists that the antibiotic resistance genes carried by some GM crops might lead to devastating human epidemics if transferred to bacteria.